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The plausibility of transferring the notion of ‘altered states of consciousness’ to social sciences is discussed in the framework of problems and new trends of the post-communist society in the East, compared to the post-industrial one in the West. Transferring is regarded as possible to the extent to which sociocultural groups coincide with subcultures of altered states of consciousness in the given society. The article at hand is based on a first-hand account of current discussions in Russian academic circles.
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Spivak, D. (1999). Altered States of Society: A Tentative Approach. In: Aerts, D., Broekaert, J., Weyns, W. (eds) A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature. Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0856-3_3
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